ACICAFOC Asociación Coordinadora Indigena y Campesina de Agroforesteria Comunitaria Centroamericana | Central American Indigenous and Peasant Coordinator of Communal Agroforestry

ACICAFOC is a non-profit, social community-based organization from Central America, which groups associations, cooperative societies, federations and grass roots organizations lead by small and medium agro forestry producers, indigenous peoples and farmer peasants. These groups work for the access, use and management of the natural resources, seeking food security and economic sustainability for their communities in harmony with the environment.

ACTS - African Centre for Technology Studies

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) is an international inter-governmental policy research and outreach organization located in Nairobi, Kenya.  The Centre's mission is to strengthen the capacity of African countries and institutions to harness science and technology for sustainable development. 

The Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development or AFA is a regional alliance of farmer federations and organizations in ten Asian countries, representing 10 million farmers. Established in May 2002, our formation was a fruit of a three-year, five Farmers' Exchange Visits organized by our strategic NGO partner, Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA).

ADB - Asian Development Bank

ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966, they are now owned by 63 members, mostly from the region.

African Union

The main objectives of the OAU were, inter alia, to rid the continent of the remaining vestiges of colonization and apartheid; to promote unity and solidarity among African States; to coordinate and intensify cooperation for development; to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Member States and to promote international cooperation within the framework of the United Nations.

AGRITERRA

Promote, facilitate and support lasting cooperation linkages between rural people's organizations in the Netherlands and in developing countries.

AKDN - Aga Khan Development Network

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is a group of development agencies working in health, education, culture and rural and economic development, primarily in Asia and Africa. It consists of eight agencies.

AIARD Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development

AIARD is an association of professionals and practitioners in international development with experience and intellectual and institutional capabilities to articulate and address broad-based as well as more focused development issues in agriculture and rural development.

Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch works to defend the environment and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.

ANIHAN - Agrarian Reform and Rural Development in The Philippines

Provide farmer leaders, students, researchers, social development workers and policy makers the latest news, updates, issues, analyses and perspectives on agrarian reform and rural development in The Philippines.

ALIN East Africa - Arid Lands Information Network

ALIN aims to improve the development practices of community development works in the East African drylands by facilitiating the exchange of experience among them, and disseminating appropriate information in a useable form.

AS-PTA - Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa

A AS-PTA - Assessoria e Serviços a Projetos em Agricultura Alternativa - tem por objetivo a promoção do desenvolvimento da agricultura brasileira com base nos princípios da agroecologia e no fortalecimento da agricultura familiar.

AUSAID - Australian National Aid and Strengthening Input Market Systems

The objective of the program is to advance Australia's national interest by helping developing countries reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development.

BASIS - Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems

Since its inception in 1996, BASIS has focused on the interactions and inter-relationships of land, water, labor, and financial markets and the impacts of policy or policy reform in helping improve access to and efficiency of factor markets in multiple regions around the world.

CAB International

CAB International is a leading global not-for-profit organisation. Its purpose is the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge in the applied biosciences to enhance development, human welfare and the environment.

(The) Caledonia Centre for Social Development (Land Reform)

This site is sponsored by the Caledonia Centre for Social Development and has been prepared by a group of individuals with an interest in land reform, land administration, land ownership and land use.

CANARI - Caribbean Natural Resource Institute

The Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI) is an independent technical and research organisation, which analyses and promotes the participatory management of natural resources in the islands of the Caribbean. For more than twenty years, the Institute has developed a thorough knowledge of issues related to participatory management. The results of its research and analysis in this field have been disseminated throughout the Caribbean region through publications, technical assistance and training.

CAPRI - The System-Wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)

This is one of several intercenter initiatives of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The program fosters research and promotes collaboration on institutional aspects of natural resource management between Future Harvest Centers and National Agricultural Research Institutes. CAPRi intends to contribute to policies and practices that alleviate rural poverty by analyzing and disseminating knowledge on the ways that collective action and property rights institutions influence the efficiency, equity, and sustainability of natural resource use.

CARITAS Internationalis

Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.

CARE

A humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.

CCIC - Canadian Council for International Cooperation

A coalition of Canadian voluntary sector organizations working globally to achieve sustainable human development. CCIC seeks to end global poverty, and to promote social justice and human dignity for all.

CDE - Centre for Development and Environment

CDE's mission is to contribute to sustainable development in countries of the North, South, and East, through:
- research partnerships
- education and training
- development of concepts and tools
- raising awareness
- policy advice

CDI - Community Conservation and Development Initiatives

CCDI is a non-profit and non-political organisation primarily focused on reaching down to the poor through implementing economically viable but ecologically sustainable projects within the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

CECI - (The) Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation

CECI is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to fight poverty and exclusion in the developing world and in other countries.

CENESTA - Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment

The Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable community- and culture-based development.  Its main area of work is Iran and Southwest Asia. CENESTA experts have also engaged in extensive activities in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and in the international arena in general.  CENESTA is a member of IUCN-the World Conservation Union and is affiliated with the University of the North (Iran).

(The) Center for Native Lands - Centro Tierras Nativas

Native Lands works to protect biological and cultural diversity in Latin America, with a focus on Central America and southern Mexico.

CFA - Canadian Federation of Agriculture

A farmer-funded national umbrella organisation representing provincial general farm organisations and national commodity groups.

CFSC Communication for Social Change Consortium

A new international nonprofit organization working in developing and industrialized countries. Our goal is to build local capacity of people living in poor and marginalized communities to use communication in order to improve their own lives.

CGAP

CGAP is a consortium of 28 public and private development agencies working together to expand access to financial services for the poor in developing countries. CGAP was created by these aid agencies and industry leaders to help create permanent financial services for the poor on a large scale (often referred to as "microfinance").

CIEL - Center for International Environmental Law

CIEL provides a full range of environmental legal services in both international and comparative national law, including: policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and institution building. Law and Communities program

CILSS - Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel

To invest in the research on food security and in combatting the effects of drought and desertification for a new ecological equilibrium" in the Sahel.

CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research

CIFOR is an international research and global knowledge institution committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics.

CIRN - Community Informatics Research Network

The Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) is an international network of researchers, practitioners and policy makers concerned with enabling communities through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and specifically with research and practice in Community Informatics and community networking.

CISP - Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli

CISP is involved in development, rehabilitation and humanitarian programmes as well as projects of applied research in about 30 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe.

CLEAR Centre for Land, Economy and Rights of Women

CLEAR's long-term vision is a society where women and men have equal rights of access, control and ownership to land, property, natural resources and their benefits. Its mission is to influence the formulation and implementation of gender sensitive policies, laws and structures on land/property and natural resources in Eastern and Southern African countries. Operationally, Clear's niche is on, policy analysis, research and advocacy with regard to women's land/property rights.

Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non governmental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies.

CNCR - Conseil National de Concertation et de Cooperation des Ruraux

CNRC favoriser le dialogue, la réflexion en commun et le partage des expériences autour de questions majeures et essentielles du développement rural en vue de renforcer l'unité des mouvements et fédérations d'associations paysannes. CNRC d'assurer une bonne représentation de l'identité paysanne et du point de vue des producteurs sur les questions de développement, auprès de l'Etat et des partenaires extérieurs ou intérieurs. CNRC de contribuer à la promotion et au développement durable des exploitations familiales.

CODEFF - Comité Nacional pro Defensa de la Fauna y Flora - Chile

Organización no gubernamental, ciudadana, de carácter nacional y participativa, para la conservación de la naturaleza, medio ambiente y promoción del desarrollo sustentable.
National and participatory non governmental organization of citizens for the preservation of environment and the promotion of sustainable development.

Cormas - Natural resources and agent-based simulations

Land-use dynamics, multiple uses of a common resource

This site is devoted to the applied modelling of relationship between societies and their environment. Cormas is used for geographic applications in the broad sense. Here we group together the applications concerning spatial dynamics and questions about multiple uses of a common resource.

Communication Initiative (The)

Space to share, debate and innovate for more effective development communication practice.

Goals:

• Debate development communication issues and programmes
• Improve strategic communication analysis and action
• Support a stronger voice for the communication experiences and learnings in The South
• Expand communication and development networks in The South
• Promote the importance of communication for development

CONCORD European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development

CONCORD is the European NGOs Confederation for Relief and Development. Its 18 international networks and 19 national associations from the European Member States and the candidate countries represent more than 1200 European NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions.

Counterpart

Counterpart's Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture unit is dedicated to fighting hunger and malnutrition across the globe. They work with local communities to improve the quantity, reliability, variety, and nutrition of their food supply. Counterpart also helps families earn enough income to buy additional foods. Their programs are designed to create healthy and sustainable livelihoods. The overall mission of Counterpart International is to give people a voice in their own future through smart partnerships offering options and access to tools for sustained social, economic and environmental development.

Covalence

Covalence was created to provide innovative services in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethical investing and risk analysis, focusing on the realities and needs of developing countries.

CPRC - Chronic Poverty Research Centre

CPRC is an international partnership of universities, research institutes and NGOs established in 2000 with initial funding from the UK's Department for International Development.

CSRC - Community Self-reliance Center (CSRC) Nepal

Community Self-reliance Center (CSRC) Nepal is a community-based organization working towards sustainable development through the right-based approach.

CSRC has been involved in empowering poor and marginalized people for promoting their rights, raising voices and access to choices in partnership with Action Aid Nepal. Organizing tenant farmers and claiming their rights over cultivated land is the key focuses of this movement.

Networking and alliance building has been a priority working strategy of CSRC. Over the last one-decade and more, CSRC has initiated joint activities with a number of like-minded individuals, groups and organizations.

Cultural Survival

Cultural Survival is the leading U.S.-based international indigenous rights organization.

(The) Development Group for Alternative Policies

The Development Gap has worked to ensure that the knowledge, priorities and efforts of the women and men of the South inform decisions made in the North about their economies and the environments in which they live. Through its collaboration with citizens' organizations overseas, The Development GAP is able to demonstrate practical alternatives to prevailing policies and programs.

DidiBahini

Established in 1992 with a goal to facilitate gender mainstreaming into the development process, DidiBahini is a non-profit non-governmental organization.

Dutch Involvement with International Partnerships

A website dedicated to making information on Dutch stakeholders involvement in/and international partnerships accessible; giving up to date information on international partnership related issues; and stimulating the debate on international partnerships in the Netherlands.

Drylandscope

Drylandscope is an emerging organization dedicated to the belief that the problems associated with land degradation can be remedied through a practical, ecologically based strategy. We feel that it is our responsibility to avail ourselves to the service of sustainable management, toward more appropriate development of drylands. To achieve our goals, we are committed to providing a useful platform for open information access and dialogue on all subjects pertinent to this process.

Drylands Research

Drylands Research is an informal consortium committed to understanding the linkages between policy strategies, long-term change, environmental management and rural livelihoods in semi-arid areas.

Earth Rights Institute

Earth Rights Institute is dedicated to securing a culture of peace and justice by establishing dynamic worldwide networks of persons of goodwill and special skill, promoting policies and programs which further democratic rights to common heritage resources, and building ecological communities.

EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union (http://europa.eu). It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties.

Ekta Parishad

Ekta Parishad ("united forum") is a mass movement based
on Gandhian principles of non-violence. It mobilizes people (especially the poor and deprived sections) on the issue of proper and just utilization of livelihood resources (i.e. primarily land, but also forest, and water).

ENDA-TM -Environment and Development Action in the Third World

ENDA-TM is an international non-profit organisation based in Dakar, Senegal. Founded in 1972, ENDA is an association of autonomous entities co-ordinated by an Executive Secretariat. Enda collaborates with grassroots groups in search of alternative development models on the basis of the experience, expectations and objectives of marginalised peoples.

Environmental Defense Organisation

Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 400,000 members. Since 1967, they have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.

ERMIS - Environmental Research Mapping and Information Systems

Environmental considerations are increasingly becoming integral factors in economic decision-making. Demonstrating environmental sensitivity in core business strategies and activities serves as foundation for achieving sustainable growth and lasting competitiveness. Environmentally responsible procurement is building demand for information on available options

ESRC - Economic & Social Research Council

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns. We aim to provide high quality research on issues of importance to business, the public sector and government.

ETFRN - European Tropical Forest Research Network

ETFRN is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-)tropical forest research.

FCOSS - Fiji Council of Social Services

FCOSS is a peak body in Fiji, Pastor Kabu sits as an international Delegate for the Pacific umbrella body Pacific Islands Associations of Non-Government Organisations. Its main issue is community development.

Federation of Southern Cooperatives - Land Assistance Fund

The Federation strives toward the development of self-supporting communities with programs that increase income and enhance other opportunities; and we strive to assist in land retention and development, especially for African Americans, but essentially for all family farmers.

FIAN - International Human Rights Organisation for the Right to Feed Oneself

FIAN promotes the fundamental human right to food which is enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations.

FMRA Foro Mundial sobre la Reforma Agraria 2004

Focus on the Global South

Focus on the Global South is a program of Development Policy Research, Analysis and Action. It was founded in 1995. At present Focus on the Global South has three offices in Bangkok, Thailand, Mumbai, India and Manila, Philippines.

FOOD FIRST - Institute for Food and Development Policy

Food First works to highlight root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.

Forum Syd in Cambodia

Forum Syd is a meeting point for people and organisations with different ideas and experiences, which work for one common goal - global justice. We share the understanding that civil society is an important force for change in the world. In what we call the civil society, people gather and join together in associations, networks and groups. Together with organisations around the world, we hope to contribute to the efforts of women and men to organise themselves in democratic ways to build a vivid civil society.

FRMT - Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum

"FRMT es la plataforma institucional de Rigoberta Menchú Tum que garantiza la realización y ejecución de los planes, programas y acciones a favor de los Derechos Humanos, de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas y de los aportes a la solución política de los conflictos mediante el diálogo, las negociaciones y los acuerdos de paz."
FRMT is the Institutional Platform of Rigoberta Menchú Tum which supports the elaboration and implementation of Plans, Programmes and Initiatives in favour of Human rights and Indigenous Peoples rights and of contributions to political decision-making for conflicts solution, through dialogue, negotiations and peace agreements. 

Forest Peoples Programme

The Forest Peoples Programme supports forest peoples' rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources.

Generative Dialogue Process

The Generative Dialogue Project (GDP) is a community building and action research project of the Global Leadership Initiative, sponsored by Synergos Institute in partnership with GAN-Net, the United Nations Development Programme, Generon Consulting, and SoL (the Society for Organizational Learning).

Global Campaign for Secure Land Tenure - UNCHS

The Global Campaign for Secure Tenure is designed to take forward the commitment of Governments to providing adequate shelter for all.

German Foundation for World Population

DSW is committed towards a sustainable development of world population.

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD)

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is an initiative of development agencies and international financial institutions to improve donor cooperation, collaboration and coordinated dialogue with partner countries. Its ultimate objective is to reduce poverty and enhance economic growth in rural areas in developing countries.

Grameen Bank

Reaching and serving the poor with credit.

Habitat International Coalition

Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the global movement specialized in human settlements since 1976, comprises some 450 members in 80 countries, in the North and South. They include NGOs, community-based organizations, social movements, academic and research centers, professional associations and like-minded individuals dedicated to the struggle against deprivation of well-being and for realizing the human right to adequate housing for all.

Huairou Commission:

The Huairou Commission is a global coalition of networks, institutions and individual professionals that recognize the value of grassroots women's local development knowledge and create opportunities for it to be shared among grassroots groups, policy makers, advocacy groups and institutions. currently, the network focuses its joint efforts on five campaings: Governance, AIDS, Disaster, land and Housing and Peace Building. Huairou is nvesting in the collection, generation and distribution of grassroots knowledge and will continue to build a Resource Centre that will serve grassroots organizations.

Homeless International

A UK charity that supports community-led housing and infrastructure related development in partnership with local partner organisations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The initiatives are all led, developed and managed by the local community groups themselves.

HLCLEP - High Level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor

A new independent. global intiative setting out to explore how nations can reduce poverty rhough reforms that expand access to legal protection and economic opportunities for all.

IAPAD - Integrated Approach to Particiaptory Development

IAPDA acts as focal point for sharing information and technical progress on community-based mapping and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS). The website provides ample documentation on Participatory 3D Modelling (P3DM), an efficient tool for merging indigenous technical knowledge and traditional spatial information. P3DM applications include community-based natural resources management, collaborative research and planning, resource use, control and tenure, and related conflict management.

IASCP - International Association for the Study of Common Property

The International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), founded in 1989, is a nonprofit Association devoted to understanding and improving institutions for the management of environmental resources that are (or could be) held or used collectively by communities in developing or developed countries. The Association's Goals are:

• to encourage exchange of knowledge among diverse disciplines, areas, and resource types;
• to foster mutual exchange of scholarship and practical experience; and,
• to promote appropriate institutional design.
  

IATP - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

IATP promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

ICARDA - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

Established in 1977, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is one of the 15 centers strategically located all over the world and supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). With its main research station and offices based in Aleppo, Syria, ICARDA works through a network of partnerships with national, regional and international institutions, universities, non-governmental organizations and ministries in the developing world; and with advanced research institutes in industrialized countries.

ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is a non-profit, non-political, international organization for science-based agricultural development. ICRISAT conducts research on sorghum, pearl millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut - crops that support the livelihoods of the poorest of the poor in the semi-arid tropics encompassing 48 countries. ICRISAT also shares information and knowledge through capacity building, publications and ICTs. Established in 1972, it is one of 15 Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

ICT Update

A current awareness bulletin for ACP agriculture.

IFAT - International Fair Trade Association

A global movement of over one million small-scale producers and workers organized in as many as 3,000 grassroots organizations and their umbrella structures in over 50 countries in the South.

IFDC - International Fertilizer Development Centre

IFDC is a public, nonprofit, international organization, which was founded in 1974 to assist in the quest for global food security.  The Center's goal is to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable manner through the development and transfer of effective, environmentally sound plant nutrient technology and agricultural marketing expertise.  IFDC conducts its work independently and on a scientifically sound basis.

IFSA - International Farming System Association

IFSA is a global association, incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation in the Philippines, with an international membership consisting of individual researchers and  practitioners and various regional associations and networks involved in farming systems related work around the world.  The Association's primary function is to foster and support the growing number of regional farming systems associations and networks.

IIIRM - International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management

IIIRM is a law and policy research institute. Established in Denver, Colorado in 1997, the Institute's cadre of internationally-based legal scholars and researchers work on cutting-edge projects designed to empower native peoples by examining the role the law can play in establishing and enhancing indigenous peoples' control over and management of their lands and resources.

IIRR - International Institute of Rural Reconstruction

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) is a rural development organization with 80 years experience, working in Africa, Asia and Latin America. They promote people-centered development through capacity building for poor people and their communities, development organizations and agencies.

IISD - International Institute on Sustainable Development

IISD contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment , and natural resources management. By using Internet communications, we report on international negotiations and broker knowledge gained through collaborative projects with global partners, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries and better dialogue between North and South.

ILS - International Land Systems, Inc

ILS specializes in creating customized software and Internet solutions for geospatial and land-based applications, such as Title Registration Systems, Deeds Recording Systems and Land Information Systems (LIS).

IMF - International Monetary Fund

The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

Indigenous Knowledge Programe (World Bank):

This website opens a gateway to development approaches that rely on traiditonal knowledge systems to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goals of the website are: (a) to raise awareness ont he role that community-based practices can play in enriching the development process; and (b) to help development practitioners to mainstream indigenous/traditional knowledge into the activities of developmetn partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor.

InfoBridge Foundation

A not-for-profit organisation that fosters public-domain sharing of information on sustainable development and poverty reduction

Inter-American Alliance for Accountability on Real Property Rights

The Alliance aims to assist the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean to strengthen Real Property Rights, in compliance with the agreement signed by the Presidents of the various countries of the Region during the Presidential Summit held in Monterrey, Mexico in January of this year. Through this, you can keep up to date with what is happening in the newly formed Inter-American Alliance for Accountability on Real Property Rights and how it will help achieve our Summit goals.

INTERACTION - American Council for Voluntary Action

Works to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.

International Agri-Food Network

AgriFood Innovations is a leading thought and risk partner focused on technology innovations. Our core expertise lies in the following industry sectors: (Agriculture, Food, Biotechnology).

INTRAC - International NGO Training and Research Center

INTRAC supports non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society organisations around the world by exploring policy issues, and strengthening management and organisational effectiveness.

IPALMO - Institute for relations between Italy and the countries of Africa, Latin America and the Middle East

Ipalmo is a research institute focused on international policy and economy, and on economic and cultural cooperation at inter-regional level and between countries with different development levels. Ipalmo is a non-profit organization.

IPC - International NGO/CSO Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty

IPC is a global network of NGOs/CSOs concerned with food sovereignty issues and programs. It includes social organizations representing small farmers, fisher folk, indigenous peoples, agricultural workers' trade unions; sub-regional/regional NGOs/CSOs which act as regional focal points; and NGO networks with particular expertise and a long history of lobbying and action and advocacy on issues related to food sovereignty and agriculture, which act as thematic focal points.

IRFD - International Research Foundation for Development

The International Research Foundation for Development is an autonomous, nonpartisan, transnational organization composed of an international community of contemplative thinkers, policy makers, practitioners, and laypersons who are making a concerted effort to improve the quality of life at various levels of the world. The foundation was established in 1993 and has achieved the status of a public foundation. This transnational foundation operates within its special category of consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations as specified in the UN Charter Article 71.

IRN - International Rivers Network

IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management.

ITC - International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

The knowledge field of ITC is geo-information science and earth observation , which consists of a combination of tools and methods for the collection - through aerospace survey techniques -, storage and processing of geo-spatial data, for the dissemination and use of these data and of services based on these data.

IUCN - World Conservation Union

IUCN is a unique Union. Its members from some 140 countries include over 70 States, 100 government agencies, and 750-plus NGOs. More than 10,000 internationally-recognised scientists and experts from more than 180 countries volunteer their services to its six global commissions.

Jatam

JATAM is a network of non-governmental organizations and community organizations working on behalf of human rights, gender, the environment, and indigenous people's rights impacted by mining policy and activities

KIT Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen - Royal Tropical Institute

KIT is a knowledge institute specialized in international cooperation and intercultural communication.

KMP - Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas - Peasant Movement of the Philippines

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is a nationwide federation of Philippine organizations of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, subsistence fisherfolk, peasant women and rural youth. It has effective leadership over a total of 800,000 rural people comprising roughly 9% of the Philippine agricultural labor force. It has 55 provincial and 6 regional chapters nationwide.

Landadmin

A source of information for practitioners and students of land administration in the Developing World.

Land Care Australia

A bridge between Landcare and Coastcare groups, governments, and business, connecting people throughout Australia to care for the environment.

Land Equity

LEI is an innovative and experienced international consulting organization specializing in land administration, land titling and cadastre. They provide project design, project management, project implementation and project evaluation.

Landnet America

Links a growing community of practice whose efforts contribute to progress toward the Summit of Americas goals relating to property rights systems.

Land Research Action Network

The Land Research Action Network (LRAN) is a network of researchers and social movements committed to the promotion and advancement of the fundamental rights of individuals and communities to land, and to equitable access to the resources necessary for life with human dignity.

Land Watch Asia

This site was created as part of the Land Watch Campaign being spearheaded by the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC)

Land Rights Watch

A website dedicated to following the Norwegian government's establishment of an inter-governmental High-Level Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor. The Concept Paper, which so far forms the foundation of the Commission, clearly states that the Commission is inspired by the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto's theories and the assumption that the fight against poverty can only be won through legal recognition of poor people's assets and their inclusion in the formal market economy.

Land Tenure Services - South Africa

The members and staff of Land Tenure Services South Africa, inspired by the desire to create an equitable and fair land dispensation, are committed to providing excellence in land reform.

LandWeb

Landweb is a network and information exchange tool for NGOs working on land advocacy and issues in Eastern and Southern Africa.

League for Pastoral People

The League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development is an advocacy and support group for pastoralists who depend on common property resources. They work and conduct research with pastoral communities, primarily in India. 

Leap - Legal Entity Assessment Project

A Learning apporach to increasing the security of tenure of poor and vulnerable people based in South Africa

LEMU - The Land and Equity Movement in Uganda

LEMU is a movement which aims to unite the efforts of local people, local Government, local civil society organisations, students, elders, volunteers, and anyone with contribution to make land work for the poor.

Letloa Trust

Letloa aims to provide support to organisations and individuals that strive to facilitate the development process amongst marginalised minorities, especially the San.

LUCID - Land Use Change, Impacts and Dynamics

The LUCID network seeks to generate and provide the best available information on land-use change and natural resources to local, national and regional policy makers and to the development community, as well as to scientists concerned with global environmental change.

Make Poverty History

Brings topgether a wide cross section of over 200 charities, campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and celebrities who are united by a common belief that 2005 offers an unprecedented opportunity for global change.

Mekong River Commission for Sustainable Development

To promote and co-ordinate sustainable management and development of water and related resources for the countries' mutual benefit and the people's well-being by implementing strategic programmes and activities and providing scientific information and policy advice.

MST - Movimento dos Trabhaldores Sem Terra

MST is the largest social movement in Latin America and one of the most successful grassroots movements in the world. Hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long-overdue land reform in a country mired by an overly skewed land distribution pattern.

MWENGO -  Mwelekeo wa NGO

To provide strategic leadership to empower/nurture a community of values by generating and mobilising African human and knowledge resources to support organisations fighting for social justice.

My Land

Information Support for Land Reform in the Ukraine.

NEPAD - The new partnership for Africa's development

NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues such as the escalating poverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalisation of Africa needed a new radical intervention, spearheaded by African leaders, to develop a new Vision that would guarantee Africa's Renewal.

North South Institute, the

The North-South Institute is dedicated to eradicating global poverty and enhancing social justice through research which promotes international cooperation, democratic governance, and conflict prevention.

NGLS United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service - Roundup and Go Between newsletters

NGLS aim of strengthening UN-NGO dialogue and cooperation in the fields of development education, information and policy advocacy on global sustainable development issues

Nkuzi Development Association

The core purpose of Nkuzi is to enable and support marginalised rural and peri-urban communities in exercising their land and related rights. Our aim is to facilitate the acquisition of land and its productive and sustainable use.

NRI - Natural Resources Institute

NRI is an internationally recognized multi-disciplinary centre for research, consultancy and education for the management of natural and human resources.

OECD - Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

OECD is best known for its publications and statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics to trade, economics, development and science and innovation.

OICRF - Office International du Cadastre et du Régime Foncier | International Office of Cadastre and Land Records

OICRF is a study and documentation centre for cadastre, land administration and affiliated fields of interest

Oilwatch

Oilwatch is a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries.

OISCA - International

OISCA-International contributes to Humanity's environmentally sustainable development through a holistic approach emphasizing the interconnectedness of agriculture, ecological intergrity, and the human spirit.

One World

OneWorld has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs.

Oxfam | Oxfam Land Rights in Africa

Oxfam GB is a development, advocacy and relief agency working to put and end to poverty word wide. Oxfam uses a range of approaches to achieve change and improve peoples' lives, including saving lives through emergency response; longer term development programmes; and campaigning to achieve lasting change.

PAC - Partnership Africa Canada  

PAC is a coalition of Canadian and African NGOs working together on issues of human rights, human security and sustainable development. In collaboration with its members and other organizations, PAC undertakes research and policy dialogue initiatives on issues affecting Africa.

Pambkuza News

Weekly forums for social justice in Africa

Pan-African Program on Land and Resource Rights

To develop and articulate a pan-African voice on land and resource rights, policies and advocacy, and engage with other stakeholders at regional and international research and policy-making events.

Panos London

Panos London stimulates informed and inclusive public debate around key development issues in order to foster sustainable development. They are working to promote an enabling media and communications environment worldwide.

Their aim is to ensure that the perspectives of the people whose lives are most affected by development (mainly the poor and marginalised) are included within decision-making and that decisions are subject to their scrutiny and debate.

PAPLRR - The Pan-African Programme on Land and Resources Rights

To develop and articulate a pan-African voice on land and resource rights, policies and advocacy, and engage with other stakeholders at regional and international research and policy-making events... This programme provides an opportunity for scholars, practitioners and advocacy groups across Africa to enhance their capacity to engage critically but constructively with these challenges to analysis and action in the interests of the poor.

Partnership Africa Canada

Partnership Africa Canada works in partnership with organizations in Africa, Canada and internationally to build sustainable human development in Africa.

Pastoral Development Network

PDN represents a world-wide network of researchers, administrators and extension personnel interested in the issues of pastoralism and rangelands.

PLA - Participatory Learning and Action

Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) is an umbrella term for a wide range of similar approaches and methodologies, including Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA), Participatory Learning Methods (PALM), Participatory Action Research (PAR), Farming Systems Research (FSR), Méthod Active de Recherche et de Planification Participative (MARP), and many others. The common theme to all these approaches is the full participation of people in the processes of learning about their needs and opportunities, and in the action required to address them.

PLASS - The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies

The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is a constituent unit of the University of the Western Cape's School of Government which was established in 1995. PLAAS is based in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Policy Power Tools

This website introduces a range of Power Tools - "how-to" ideas that marginalised people and their allies can use to have a greater positive influence on natural resources policy.

Public Conversations Project (PCP):

This is the website of the Public Conversations Project (PCP). PCP fosters a more inclusive and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values and views. The overall objective is to develop new modes of communicating that lead to mutual understanding, respect and trust. this reduces the costly effects of conflict and creates new possibilities for change. A dialogue took box is available.

RACA Rapid Agrarian Conflict Appraisal

RDI - Rural Development Institute

RDI is a nonprofit organization of attorneys helping the rural poor in developing countries obtain legal rights to land.

RCMRD - Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development

The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), previously known as Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS) was established in Nairobi, Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then Organization of African Unity (OAU). Its founder members are Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania and Malawi and the Government of the Republic of Kenya hosts it. It is a non-profit intergovernmental organization and currently has 14 contracting member States, namely: Botswana, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

RCPLA - Resource Centres for Participatory Learning and Action

The RCPLA network is an alliance of seventeen different organisations from around the world, that strives to promote the empowerment of the disadvantaged through participation in their own development. The Network helps researchers and practitioners share information and experience about Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) approaches, and encourages the improved implementation of these approaches globally. The Network hopes to further the role of participatory approaches into governance structures to create change. Each member of the Network brings with it specific strengths, but are united in their desire to provide access to a variety of resources.

Royal African Society

Now more than 100 years old, the Royal African Society today is Britain's primary Africa organisation, promoting Africa's cause. Through its journal, African Affairs, and by organising meetings, discussions and other activities, the Society strengthens links between Africa and Britain and encourages understanding of Africa and its relations with the rest of the world.

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) is an independent centre of knowledge and expertise in the areas of international and intercultural cooperation. The aims of KIT are to contribute to sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and cultural preservation and exchange.

RRI Rights and Resources Initiative

International coalition to strengthen local rights to own and use forests and fight rural poverty.

Sahel Développement Environnement Formation Insertion Sociale (SAHEL DEFIS)

Supports local initiatives in environmental protection and income generation for women and youth in the Sahel region of Africa. Projects are in place in Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin among other African countries. Activities include the Greening the Sahel project that trains local communities and young people on environmental protection, promotes re-forestation, and explores green tourism options. Has been active in the implementation efforts under the UNCCD. Participated in NGO consultations for WSSD in Cape Town (June 2001).

SARPN - Southern African Regional Poverty Network

SARPN's ultimate goal is to contribute to the sustainable reduction of poverty through effective pro-poor policy, strategy and practice in the SADC region. Its purpose is to deepen and widen debates on policy, strategy, practice and decision-making processes that impact on poverty in the region. SARPN provides platforms that widen participation by bringing people together across the region to exchange ideas, and disseminates information to deepen understanding of poverty issues and improve policy and practice.

Savory Center for Holistic Management

Holistic Management has helped people all over the world more effectively manage all their resources in a truly sustainable way.

SDC - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

SDC is organized and funded by the Swiss government and operates by financing programs both directly and in partnership with other agencies to countries around the world.

SEEDS Trust

Social Education And Environmental Development Scheme (SEEDS) Trust is a non-governmental, non-profit social service organization working for an integrated development of women and children of vulnerable segment of the population.

Selvas.org

Informative and independent observations on the Andea Region.

SGP-PTF Small Grants Program

Promote Tropical Forests in SouthEast Asia a community focused, country led programme that works closely with and builds on the existing mechanisms and procedures established by The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (known as SGP), implemented by UNDP and executed by UNOPS.

Solid Terrain Modeling

To invent new technology and use it to create beautiful and accurate physical models of terrain. To make these models available for GIS professionals, public, private and military, quickly and economically and to license the systems we have created to suitable private companies, agencies and institutions.

Southern African Trust

The Southern Africa Trust is an independent agency that supports organisations and processes to deepen and widen engagement in policy dialogue with a regional impact on poverty.

South Asia Partnership - Nepal

A non-government support organization working for the capacity building of development organizations.

SPC Secretariat of the Pacific Community

An international organisation, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) works in partnership with its members, other organisations and donors to deliver priority work programmes to member countries and territories.

Sri Lanka Canada Development Fund

is actively involved in supporting over 500 village-based organizations to uplift the socio-economic status of the country's marginalized population.

SUNGI - Development Foundation

Swedesurvey

This is a state-owned company that is internationally recognised for its innovative approach to land management and use of geospatial data. We provide clients throughout the world with customised solutions that meet not only the needs of today, but will also meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Terralingua

Terralingua supports the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life -- the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity -- through an innovative program of research, education, policy and on-the-ground action.

Tierra Institute

Terra Institute Ltd. is a private, non-profit corporation that focuses on issues concerning urban and rural land use and policies, environmental protection, land law and natural resource management. 

UK Government's Commission for Africa

The Commission for Africa was launched by the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in February 2004. The aim of the Commission was to take a fresh look at Africa's past and present and the international community's role in its development path.

UK Government's Presidency of the G8

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges.

UN Habitat - United Nations Human Settlement Programme Land and Tenure Section

Implementation of land, housing and property rights, particularly women's secure tenure , Affordable land management systems and pro-poor flexible tenure types.

UNPFII - United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples -

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is a part of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

University of Birmingham

The International Development Department's programmes are designed to meet the evolving needs of the contemporary development sector, and are sensitive to specific country situations.

University of York - The Centre for Ecology Law and Policy (CELP) links the departments of Environment , Politics and Social Policy at the University of York.

CELP conducts interdisciplinary research on the environment. The aim is to integrate the disciplines of ecology, law and policy in order to reach a better understanding of how society and the environment interact.

UTVIKLINGSFONDET - The Development Fund - El Fondo de Desarrollo

We believe that we, together with others, can create a world free from hunger and poverty, while at the same time taking care of the natural environment.

The idea behind the Development Fund was a somewhat different way of thinking about development. Since the beginning in 1978, the Development Fund has been in the vanguard of progressive thinking, with what was then the radical vision that poverty is best fought by aiming to enable people to help themselves.

Via Campesina  

A movement of peasant and farm organizations from all the regions of the world committed to solidarity and determination to move forward in the defence of people of the land and in the building of better alternatives.

WAMIP World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples

WAMIP is a global alliance of nomadic peoples and communities practicing various forms of mobility as a livelihood strategy which conserving biological diversity and using natural resources in a sustainable way.

WANEP - West Africa Network for Peacebuilding

To enable and facilitate the development of mechanisms for cooperation among civil society based peacebuilding practitioners and organizations in West Africa by promoting cooperative responses to violent conflicts; providing the structure through which these practitioners and institutions will regularly exchange experience and information on issues of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social, religious and political reconciliation; and promoting West Africa's social cultural values as resources for peacebuilding.

WELDO - Women Empowerment Literacy and Development Organization

A non-governmental organization with one of the objectives of promotion of concerted efforts among different organizations throughout the world, is in the process of establishing linkages with different organizations worldwide.

World Social Forum

The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where groups and movements of civil society opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism, but engaged in building a planetary society centred on the human person, come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action.